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The water is clear, clean and warm (summer and fall). High mountains and cliffs cradle the blue water, sculpted from glaciers during the last ice age. Stone villages with names like Cima, Osteno, and Castello are scattered between the cliffs along the shore. These villages continue to be home to fisherman and farmers as they have for centuries.
Read MoreWe decided to visit El Salvador for one reason. El Salvador made Bitcoin a national currency. We wanted to learn for ourselves how it was working. We wanted to experience it for ourselves.
Read MoreWe arrived in Ketchikan as part of a flotilla. The final leg of a journey that began in Juneau 10 days before. Our emotions were bitter sweet. The trip was fantastic with glaciers, bears, whales and more. Our adventure was coming to an end.
Read MoreCrank up the tunes as you cruise over the Golden Gate Bridge and continue north for a couple hours. Slowly and without fanfare, you enter an altered reality dominated by rolling hills, split rail fences and few people.
Read MoreIf you want to get away from it all, just up the road is North Vancouver where you find a beautiful, glassy Deep Cove. A salt water inlet formed by verdant mountains shooting straight up. The fjords of British Columbia.
Read MoreAthens is the birthplace of democracy and western culture. Home to Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes and Alexander the Great. Many travelers to Greece start or end in Athens. But with 5 million locals the question is What is the best way to see the highlights? The answer - Explore Athens with a professional photographer.
Read MoreLegend has it that Costa Rica got its name from Columbus who believed he discovered the land of gold and silver. The “Rich Coast” stuck even though Columbus was wrong about the gold. This land is rich with beautiful beaches along the Pacific and Caribbean coastlines, mountains, active volcanoes, lush rain forests and astounding biodiversity.
Read MoreOur journey to Ravenna was relaxing, inspiring and just plain fun. Ravenna is not a port of call for fleets of tour busses like Florence or Rome.
Read MoreHigh above serene Lago Maggiore and the Italian-Swiss tourist towns of Lugano, Locarno, Bellinzona and Ascona lies the Verzasca Valley.
Read MoreOne unexpected pleasure of creating Travel is Beautiful is the opportunity to make new friends in foreign lands. Tamas is one such friend who kindly met us at the airport and shared his beautiful city, Budapest.
Read MoreDuring the Summer of 2018, I joined a group of strangers to float 188 miles down the Colorado River along the bottom of the Grand Canyon. This trip turned into one of the best trips of my life.
Read MoreLife along the Ligurian Coast hasn't changed much. Over the centuries through present day, small groups of people have gathered around a natural harbor and terraced hillsides suited for growing grapes and olives.
Read MoreIt is best to contemplate Mount Rigi as a state of mind or an attitude, rather than simply a destination or check mark on a list. The Queen of the Mountains is a massive berg with Europe's first ever alpine cog railway.
Read MoreAntelope Canyon is world famous for it's magical and astounding beauty. These slot canyons were slowly carved by natural erosion through red sandstone.....
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Read MoreThe Grand Canyon is so perfectly named, and yet so widely and commonly known that we frequently pronounce the words without the emphasis that the reality of the canyon deserves.....
Read More"We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived it to be.. the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer.. which is, in reality no more than a reflexed image of ourself." - Farely Mowat
Read MoreSitting alone on our deck overlooking the Adriatic in the early morning, I see boats of fishermen already crossing the sea in search of the day's catch. Zadar is a tranquil and beautiful.
Read MoreFor a few seconds close your eyes and imagine a magical setting complete with castle, moat, royalty, knights and palace intrigue. Marvelous does not begin to describe the natural beauty.
Read MoreBarcelona is an urban jungle bursting at the seams. The mayor, Ada Colau, "the world's most powerful mayor" has declared war on tourists because of the negative impact on the local's quality of life.
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